Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House of Representatives has already passed an HISC-sponsored bill that would enable the government to set up a commission which would fire and blacklist those government employees judged "security risks" and pressure other institutions to do the same...
...irredeemably ugly; his voice has all the soothing qualities of a tugboat whistle. His brocade jackets and frilled shirts merely reinforce the impression of 19th century decadence. As a performer, Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy. Nor have two decades on Hollywood's unwritten blacklist enhanced his marketability. But Stander, who left the U.S. in 1964, has achieved extraordinary film success in Europe. He won raves as the mordant mobster in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-Sac (1966). In Italy these days, no spaghetti western is complete without his brutal snarl. He will star...
...nothing against the black." contempt and loathing have become embedded in the language. Black Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint points out: "In the legacy of our civilization, the color black has been virtually synonymous with 'sin' and 'bad'-witness such terms as black sheep, black magic, blacklist, blackguard, blackball, black lie and many others. The word is associated with all the dirty, lowly, unintellectual functions in human life. The word white is usually invested with the opposite meanings, so Americans have been conditioned to perceive black as inferior and white as superior...
...individuals and numerous political organizations. The records are not even limited to such avowedly revolutionary groups as the Black Panthers or the Weathermen. Also among them are respected organizations like the N.A.A.C.P. and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Army has also circulated to base commanders a six-volume "blacklist" of dissidents and their organizations...
Last week the Army retreated, promising to conduct no more covert investigations of civilians without the Secretary of the Army's approval, and to recall the blacklist. It also promised to destroy information about domestic political activists stored on the Fort Holabird computer. But the Army still maintains extensive files on civilian political activists, and has no intention of ceasing its snooping altogether. With that in mind, the A.C.L.U. intends to press its court suit for a permanent injunction against all such Army surveillance activities...